Over the past year, most of us have felt unmoored. Truth feels fragile. Anger feels constant. Power feels reckless. And too often, fear has been rewarded while compassion is dismissed as weakness. In moments like these, it’s tempting to retreat, to disengage, to...
During the season of Lent, our worship series, All Y’all, invites us to hear the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount the way his first followers heard them: not as a list of impossible individual expectations, but as a shared way of life meant to shape a...
What good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? James 2:14-17 Questions for Life Groups Read James 2:14-17 and the article in this week’s Circuit Rider titled Responsibility. This week, let’s pay attention to who is being...
One of the defining struggles of our time is the widening gap between those with wealth and power and the vast majority who live without either. These inequities reach far beyond access to comfort or convenience. They shape whose voices are heard, whose bodies are...
A sound is heard in Ramah, the sound of bitter weeping. Rachel is crying for her children; she refuses to be comforted, for they are dead. Matthew 2:16-18 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 2:16-18 and the article in this week’s Circuit Rider titled Suffering....
“Who are the peacemakers in times of haunting wars?” Olena Tovianska asks from Irpin, Ukraine. She does not ask as a distant observer or a detached theologian, but as someone living inside the question. War is not an abstract concept where she lives; it constructs...
Which one of these three acted like a neighbor toward the man? The one who was kind to him. Go, then, and do the same. Luke 10:25-37 Questions for Life Groups Read Luke 10:25-37 and the article in this week’s Circuit Rider titled Neighbors. This week, pause and...
A concept known as “emotional intelligence” gets top billing in the psychological and organizational literature of our day. Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to understand, regulate, and responsibly express emotion, as a core foundation for healthy...
If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples; 32 you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. John 8 31-32 Questions for Life Groups Read John 8:31-32 and the article in this week’s Circuit Rider titled Truth. This week, practice truth-telling by...
This past week has been devastating. The news has been relentless about federal immigration enforcement expanding into cities and neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the family of a mother killed during an ICE operation in Minnesota is grieving. Her community is grieving....